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Eat Sleep Die
Outrage Beyond
Camille Claudel 1915
Mon 10 Jun 2:00 PM EV4
Fri 14 Jun 6:00 PM CrEMornE
France | 2013 | 95 mins | In French with English subtitles
AustrAliAn PrEMiErE
Director, Screenwriter: Bruno Dumont | Producers: Jean Brehat, Rachid
Bouchareb, Muriel Merlin | Cast: Juliette Binoche, Jean-Luc Vincent |
Distributor: Rialto Distribution
Edgy French director Bruno Dumont (Twentynine Palms,
Outside Satan, Humanité, Hadewijch ) takes on the tragic
true story of sculptress Camille Claudel in his daring new
film. Claudel, the student and then lover of Auguste Rodin,
was unjustly confined by her family in a mental asylum,
where she spent the last 29 years of her life. Camille tries
desperately to convince her brother, the devout Catholic
poet Paul Claudel, to have her released from the asylum.
While the doctors support her release, Paul refuses.
Juliette Binoche turns in a magnificent performance in this
stark and disturbing film; Dumont makes the unusual and
controversial decision to surround his star with real people
suffering from mental illnesses and their actual nurses.
Camille Claudel 1915 is a devastatingly powerful and
provocative portrait of a gifted artist forcefully separated
from her art.
Screens with December 25 (page 50)
Closed Curtain
PArdé
sun 9 Jun 3:45 PM doQ2
tuE 11 Jun 6:00 PM doQ2
Iran | 2013 | 106 mins | In Farsi with English subtitles
AustrAliAn PrEMiErE
Directors: Jafar Panahi, Kamboziya Partovi | Screenwriter & Producer:
Jafar Panahi | Cast: Kamboziya Partovi, Maryam Moqadam, Jafar Panahi |
World Sales: Celluloid Dreams
Banned from making films for 20 years, celebrated Iranian
director Jafar Panahi (The White Balloon, The Circle,
Offside, This Is Not a Film ), defied the authorities in order
to make this devastating portrait of melancholia and
paranoia. Panahi, who won the Best Screenplay prize at the
Berlinale, and his collaborator, Kamboziya Partovi, both star
in the film, a daring and angry protest against repression.
In a house by the sea, a man hides with his dog, working
on a screenplay. A mysterious young woman arrives, clearly
hiding from something herself, and refuses to leave. Then
Jafar Panahi himself arrives, and the curtain on what has
come before is at least partly lifted. As Panahi says:
“Closed Curtain uses shifting genres and stories within
stories to highlight why filmmaking is a necessity in a
filmmaker’s life: it is the imperative need to show the reality
of the world we live in.”
Computer Chess
WEd 5 Jun 7:45 PM EV9
sun 9 Jun 1:35 PM EV8
USA | 2013 | 91 mins | In English
AustrAliAn PrEMiErE
Director, Screenwriter: Andrew Bujalski | Producers: Houston King, Alex
Lipschultz | Cast: Patrick Riester, Wiley Wiggins, Myles Paige | World Sales:
The Film Sales Company
Computer Chess is a hilariously offbeat comedy set over
the course of a weekend tournament for chess-software
programmers in the early ’80s. Andrew Bujalski (who
visited SFF with Funny Ha Ha and Mutual Appreciation )
has recreated with fascinating detail a time in which the
contest between technology and the human spirit seemed
a little more up for grabs. The film is shot in the style of a
rudimentary black-and-white documentary (with camera
equipment from the era). The story follows a group of super
nerds, pushing humungous computers around, as they lay
the groundwork for artificial intelligence as we know it.
Along with the technical and philosophical discussions, our
bespectacled heroes get involved with some drug use, an
attempted threesome, a new-age therapeutic course and,
of course, a great deal of chess.
Filmmaker guest: Patrick Riester
the east
thu 6 Jun 7:00 PM EV4
WEd 12 Jun 8:45 PM EV9
USA, UK | 2013 | 117 mins | In English
AustrAliAn PrEMiErE
Director: Zal Batmanglij | Screenwriters: Brit Marling, Zal Batmanglij |
Producers: Ridley Scott, Michael Costigan, Jocelyn Hayes-Simpson,
Brit Marling | Cast: Brit Marling, Alexander Skarsgård, Ellen Page |
Distributor: Fox Searchlight Pictures
The East is a timely and suspenseful thriller with a stellar
young cast, including Brit Marling (Another Earth ),
Alexander Skarsgård (True Blood ) and Ellen Page (Juno ).
Directed by the talented Zal Batmanglij, The East is an
exhilarating look at young activists willing to go to great
lengths to ensure corporate responsibility, and exact
retribution on those deemed irresponsible. Marling starts
as Sarah Moss, an agent in an elite private-intelligence
firm that services the needs of A-list corporate clients. She
goes undercover to infiltrate anarchist collective The East,
who plot attacks on major companies guilty of covering up
criminal activity. Highly resourceful, Sarah ingratiates
herself with the group, and plays a key role in their next
action or ‘jam’. But as she starts to connect with the
group’s charismatic leader Benji (Skarsgård), she becomes
increasingly torn between her two worlds.
features
sYDNeY fILM festIVaL 2013
sff.OrG.au
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